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Joy of Being Sheltered Inside
March 28, 2022 by Wenxu Zhou
Person seen sitting in a modest wooden chair in ¾ view, from waist up around a table. Head is leaning on the arm closest to the viewer. Hair is dark with long ribbon flowing down the back. Person is dressed in a dark colored jacket with wide greenish-white lapels and is looking forward. The round table holds an open book and brightly colored well worn closed book. The background is a bright color.

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), Vincent Van Gogh, 1888-89.

Credit: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CCO

Thunder is rumbling, and

It’s pouring outside

I’m wearing my pajamas with peaches

Sitting on my bed, loving the world




Wenxu Zhao is a New York based illustrator. She is pursuing an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts. She loves creating imaginative and fantastic stories, and illustrating her stories into picture books.